Physicists aren’t real good philosophers (for better or worse), and thus these interpretive expressions are counter productive and edge nonsensical.<p>Okay, physicists say they don’t exist. Thanks.<p>The Universe isn’t a thing (state or collection of states.) the universe is the potential of all existence, which resolves into state in the moment of NOW.<p>This continuous collapse in the moment of now gives rise to the state of the universe.<p>Entanglement demonstrated there is an underlying aspect of existence (universal potential) of which space time emerges rather than the other way around.<p>Universal potential exists outside of space time. Space time is a manifestation of universal potential.<p>If we relate to string theory, we could say universal potential is a ~ten/eleven dimensional vibration of potential, of which time and space is an extrapolation.<p>Existence still exists. Objective Reality is the manifest form (state’s collapse) of universal potential in the moment of now (the only moment which truly exists.)<p>What we think of as existence and potential needs work. Thanks for keeping at it physicists!